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Test scores in Princeton were among the highest in the state, butthatwas not the result of a well designed academic program. Many highlyeducatedparents, including Princeton University faculty, were providingtutoringand enrichment for their own children. Other children with limitedresourcesin the Princeton Regional School system did not fare well in thishighlyprogressivist environment.

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In some respects the education wars of the 1990s have little todistinguishthem from earlier periods. There is nothing new about disagreementsoverthe best ways to educate the nation's school children. The periodicwavesof education reform from the nation's colleges of education are moresimilarthan they are different. The American education establishment hasconsistentlyadvocated a progressivist education agenda for the bulk of the 20thcentury,and the mainstream views of the education community have enjoyed acommandinginfluence on public schools.2 Recognizing this dominion intheearly part of the century, William Bagley in 1926 lamented:

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The University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics headed byMax Beberman began in 1951 and was the first major project associatedwiththe New Math era. Beberman's group published a series of high schoolmathtextbooks, and drew financial support from the Carnegie Corporation andthe U.S. Office of Education. In 1955, the College Entrance ExaminationBoard established a Commission on Mathematics to investigate the"mathematicsneeds of today's American youth." The Commission, consisting of highschoolteachers, math educators, and mathematicians, issued a report withrecommendationsfor a curriculum to better prepare students for college, and produced asample textbook for twelfth grade on probability and statistics.33The efforts of these and other early groups received little attentionuntilthe U.S.S.R launched , the first space satellite, in thefall of 1957. The American press treated as a majorhumiliation,and called attention to the low quality of math and science instructionin the public schools. Congress responded by passing the 1958 NationalDefense Education Act to increase the number of science, math, andforeignlanguage majors, and to contribute to school construction.

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However, many schools stubbornly clung to the teaching of academicsubjectseven when they offered life adjustment curricula as well. Moreover,parentsof school children resisted these changes; they wanted their ownchildreneducated and not merely adjusted. They were sometimes joined byuniversityprofessors and journalists who criticized the lack of academic contentof the progressivist life adjustment programs. Changes in society atlargealso worked against the life adjustment agenda. Through the 1940s, thenation had witnessed tremendous scientific and engineering advances. Bythe end of the decade, the appearance of radar, cryptography,navigation,atomic energy, and other technological wonderments changed the economyand underscored the importance of mathematics in the modern world. Thisin turn caused a recognition of the importance of mathematics educationin the schools. By the end of the 1940s, the public school system wasthesubject of a blizzard of criticisms, and the life adjustment movementfizzledout. Among the critics was Mortimer Smith. Reminiscent of Bagley's 1926characterization of "students of education," he wrote in his 1949 book

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The Kilpatrick committee and leading educational theoreticians hadthrownthe gauntlet, and the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)respondedvigorously. Already in 1916, in anticipation of the Kilpatrick report,E. R. Hedrick, the first president of the MAA, appointed a committeecalledthe National Committee on Mathematical Requirements. It was chaired byJ. W. Young of Dartmouth and included mathematicians E. H. Moore,OswaldVeblen, and David E. Smith, in addition to several prominent teachersandadministrators from the secondary school system. The reports of thiscommitteewere delayed because of World War I, but they were eventually collectedinto a 625 page volume entitled, The report was published in 1923 and issometimesreferred to as the

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